Kyle Robinson is our inspiring guest this week! He shares his journey of growing up with an abusive step-father, a troubled childhood littered with hanging out with the wrong crowd and making bad decisions. At 17, he entered drug rehab and then got a DUI in college. Throughout many setbacks, he started to see glimmers of his potential. Ultimately, he overcame all of this adversity and persevered to become a licensed attorney and an ultra marathoner.

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BOOK: Wandering Spark

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⁠BOOK⁠: Writing Down the Bones

BOOK: The Artist's Way

ARTICLE: Surprising Benefits of Journaling

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Ray Doktor, Psy. D. works as a life coach and relationship coach.

For the last 27 years, he’s successfully helped over 6k clients breakthrough limited beliefs and challenges to have better relationships, improved family life, and more success!

Dr. Ray shares his own vulnerable journey of growth on his own path - from near death experiences, getting a DUI, and filing for bankruptcy at just 26 years old! He also shares some unique tools to help you on your healing and growing journey.

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*TW*: This episode briefly discusses physical violence. If you're not in a place to hear this, please skip or come back and listen when you're ready.

Vinny Amendola shares his journey to living authentically. This stemmed from embarking on a writing journey, which resulted in truly understanding and processing his childhood trauma. Vinny vulnerably explores coming out as a gay man, how journaling has helped him become even more of who he really is. Vinny shares personal stories that we all can relate to!

Ginny shares the ROR process that can help you shift your reactions to responses and become more self aware.

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BOOK: Writing Down the Bones

ARTICLE: 5 Surprising Benefits of Journaling

PODCAST: Check out the Multispective podcast!

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Do you have some memorable advice you've been given? It could be the best advice or the worst advice -- drop yours in the comments!

We've all encountered people that love to give their opinion or advice. And often this is unsolicited. Sometimes people give unsolicited advice as a projection from their own experiences.

This ties into a recent episode on 5 things we do that hold us back -- which is dimming ourselves to make other people comfortable. And don't let others tamper your dreams either, even if it feels like a risk. We have to take risks, sometimes calculated ones, in order to grow. Take it from Oprah!

Resource: Oprah on taking risks

Regardless of getting good or bad advice, we can always use them as lessons.

Check out this podcast: PNW Haunts & Homicides

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*TW* Domestic violence is briefly touched on in this episode. If you are not in a place to hear this, please tune in later. And if you need help, please reach out to a professional.

This episode unpacks not only details of some popular cases, but also why people are interested in cases like the ones that Tracy Walder covers. She answers questions from listeners and teaches about "honey pots." Then we chat the Downfall of Diddy, the Sherri Papini case, the terrorist attack threat on the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, conspiracy theories and so much more!

About Tracy:

Former CIA officer and FBI special agent, Tracy Walder, worked as Staff Operations Officer (SOO) at the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center Weapons of Mass Destruction Group. During her time at the CIA, Tracy traveled to Afghanistan, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Morocco, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, and England. During this time Tracy received many awards for her service from both the CIA and from foreign intelligence offices as well. Among her awards were four Exceptional Performance Awards from the Director of the CIA, two Special Activity Awards, a Meritorious Unit Citation Award, a DCI Counterterrorism Center Medal, and two Operation Enduring Freedom Targeting Awards. After the CIA, Tracy became a Special Agent at the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations. Tracy has done a TEDx talk and is a sought after public speaker through the World Affairs Council.

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Trigger Warning: This conversation discusses mental health and therapy. If you're struggling, please reach out to a professional. You can call or text 988 for help.

Alda Sigmundsdóttir is an Icelandic-born writer, journalist and speaker. She is the author of several books about Iceland, on topics ranging from contemporary issues to mythology and ancient beliefs. She has travelled widely and given talks on Icelandic affairs, and is a regular commentator on those in the international media.

This episode specifically discusses her book, Daughter. This story unpacks Alda's experience growing up as the daughter of a narcissistic mother. We discuss the difference between overt and covert narcissism and then her own experience becoming a mother herself.

Catch up with Alda on Facebook or Instagram, or on her website aldasigmunds.com, where you can also sign up for her "Letter from Iceland" newsletter.

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Alda also discussed Steven Kessler's book, The 5 Personality Patterns

*Pardon the sound on this episode as we were navigating recording remotely. ☺️*

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Grab a pen & paper for this one! These are all things that have regularly come up in conversation. The common thread connecting these is that they either hold us back or have held us back in the past.

If any of these are something you'd like help with, schedule a coaching session! SCHEDULE HERE

If you're listening on Spotify, use the new comment feature to share what resonated with you from this episode or drop a question.

1. Do you find yourself shrinking yourself or dimming your light in order to make other people more comfortable? This is such a hot topic, the whole premise of my TEDx Talk is on this! Haven't watched it yet? WATCH HERE

2. How often do you find yourself thinking about things vs actually doing them!? This is another area that might hold us back.

3. Are you an ambitious optimist? Tune in for the definition and a list of characteristics that ambitious/eternal optimists possess. Be a little delulu!

4. Doing things that don't bring joy. Or NOT doing things that do bring us joy. A great way to track this is with the nurture tracker in I'm My Favorite: A Guided Journal for Your Path Forward.

5. Giving a sh*t about what other people think about you. Do you find yourself seeking external validation and putting significant weight on what other people think? This can be a tough one for people pleasers or those recovering people pleasers.

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Jorge Perez shares the story behind and the lessons within his new book "The Shut The Fu*k Up Method". He explains how losing both of his parents dying of cancer back to back sent him on a journey of wanting to shift his perspective and help others do the same. He enlightens us with several of his 10 commandments from the book as well as how meditation, mindfulness, and being present are powerful tools to help you silence your way to the life of your dreams. Follow Jorge on Instagram. And buy a copy of his book on Amazon.

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